New Syrian Army

The New Syrian Army (NSyA) was a secular Syrian Opposition rebel group founded on 10 November 2015 by new defectors from the Syrian Arab Army during the Syrian Civil War. Receiving equipment and funding from both the United States and the US-backed Authenticity and Development Front, the NSyA's goal was to remove the Islamic State from eastern Syria, and on 28 June 2016 it launched an offensive to liberate al-Bukamal from IS after its 5 March 2016 liberation of the al-Tanf border crossing. Led by Khazal al-Sarhan, the NSyA came under cluster bomb bombardment from the Russian Air Force in al-Tanf in June, but it continud to have US and ADF support.